Hey Malcolm,
I've been using qs-rf for a while now with basically no
problems. Excellent work.
There's one thing that may a little odd that I stumbled on while trying to
get some primitive polymorphism working:
The first thing is that there seems to be no way to tell if an instance of a
parent class has a child instance without trying the child reference and
catching the DoesNotExist exception. For a class with multiple subclasses,
this is a cumbersome, so I've been adding a _type field to parent classes
that gets set in save() of the subclasses.
Is there a better way to do this, or is this something that could be
included? I know there's no way to determine whether or not a class will be
subclassed in the future, so I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is no.
But maybe there should be a documented pattern.
The odd part is what happens with the child reference. parent.child
obviously works as expected, and returns either an instance of Child or
raises DoesNotExist. But for an instance of Child, .child always returns a
reference to itself, so that c.child == c is always True. This makes sense
on one hand, because c is also an instance of Parent, but on the other,
Child doesn't have a subclass, so should .child be None?
I haven't actually encountered this in any real life situation, because it's
hard to end up with collection in Django where you have a mix of parent and
child instances, so maybe it'll never be a problem.
One additional thing is that in one case, I know which subclasses I'm
interested in, and it'd be great to have a way to specify that a queryset
should return polymorphic results by specifying the subclasses for the join.
Something like:
Parent.objects.all().select_subclasses('Child1','Child2')
Cheers and thanks,
Justin
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